{"id":146352,"date":"2022-09-13T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/we-have-quantum-computers-now-amazon-and-harvard-want-a-quantum-internet"},"modified":"2022-09-13T19:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T00:24:59","slug":"we-have-quantum-computers-now-amazon-and-harvard-want-a-quantum-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/we-have-quantum-computers-now-amazon-and-harvard-want-a-quantum-internet","title":{"rendered":"We have quantum computers\u2014now Amazon and Harvard want a quantum internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-have-quantum-computers-now-amazon-and-harvard-want-a-quantum-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two big players in computing and research are trying to lay the groundwork for a future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/towards-unhackable-quantum-internet\">quantum internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) is teaming up with <a href=\"https:\/\/quantum.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University<\/a> to test and develop strategies for networking together quantum technologies. Their partnership was announced today, and is a continuation of AWS\u2019 goals to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/quantum-computing\/announcing-the-aws-center-for-quantum-networking\/\">communications channel<\/a> between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/caltech-amazon-quantum-computing-center-opening\/\">quantum computers<\/a> that it is also working on in parallel.<\/p>\n<p>During the three-year research alliance, funding from Amazon will support research projects at Harvard that focus on quantum memory, integrated photonics, and quantum materials, and help upgrade infrastructure in Harvard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cns1.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/\">Center for Nanoscale Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two big players in computing and research are trying to lay the groundwork for a future quantum internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is teaming up with Harvard University to test and develop strategies for networking together quantum technologies. Their partnership was announced today, and is a continuation of AWS\u2019 goals to create a communications channel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}